Rale
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An abnormal rattle or crackling sound heard in a stethoscope during breathing, caused by fluid in the lungs or the popping open of airways.
Rattle
Part of speech: noun
Definition: a sound made by loose objects shaking or vibrating against one anothera baby's toy designed to make sound when shaken, usually containing loose grains or pellets in a hollow container
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To create a sound by shaking.To scare, startle, unsettle, or unnerve.To make a rattling noise; to make noise by or from shaking.
Example sentence: My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.